haven
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
Noun 4 meanings
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
A safe place.
A peaceful or tranquil place.
A certain type of function on sets of vertices in an undirected graph, able to be used by an evader to win a pursuit-evasion game on the graph.
Verb 1 meaning
To put into, or provide with a haven.
Etymology
From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), either from Proto-West Germanic *habanu or Old Norse hǫfn, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French havre), from Proto-Germanic *habą (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, uplift, elevation”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, heave”)), or from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)).
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HAVEN at a glance
HAVEN has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + V 4 + E 1 + N 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,700 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with haven
All rhymesOne letter away
- RAVEN8
- HAVES11
- MAVEN10
- HAVER11
- HOVEN11
- DAVEN9
- PAVEN10
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